After the declaration of Tanzimat, Westernization movements in the Ottoman society redounded on individuals’ consumption patterns. Different authors addressed the change in the consumption patterns subjected to literal works of the era critically. This study aims to analyze; the change took place in consumption patterns of the Ottoman society during the post-Tanzimat era through novels of the period. Five of first-period novels evaluated by using thematic analysis, which is a qualitative analysi...

Supply Chain Management  Human Resource Management  Political Economy  Environmental Economics  Economics  Education  Monetary Economics  Business Finance and Investment  Marketing  Economic System  Business and Economics Education  Accounting  Organizational Behavior  Organizational Behavior and Theory  Development Economics  Total Quality Management  Operations Management  Production/Operations Management 

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Islamic stocks are those which do not contradict with the Islamic teachings derived from Al-Quran, Sunnah, hadith and ijtihad of the qualified Islamic scholars. This is a qualitative research comparing the stock screening criteria in order to be categorized as sharia compliant stocks in two developing countries where most of the citizen are Muslims, i.e. Indonesia and Malaysia. As the sharia stock screening is in the field of muamalah and there is no single scholar (or group) accepted by the who...

Human Resource Management  General Management  Sales Management  Risk Management  Project Management And Strategy  Management Organization  Marketing  Business Analysis  Organizational Behavior  Entrepreneurship  Organizational Behavior and Theory  Personnel and Industrial Relations  General Business Research  Operations Management 

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This article examines Chinese reverse mergers (RMs), historically a popular method for Chinese companies to enter the United States capital markets. The authors develop a regression model to identify the characteristics associated with successful Chinese RM companies and compare their long term performance to other benchmarks, to include U.S. reverse mergers, Chinese cross-listed firms and the Russell 2000.

Management Organization  Operations Management 

Doi:10.5176/2010-4804_4.1.361

This study analyzes the enablers identified by Organization Development (OD) practitioners from interpretivist’s view as being necessary for positive change to happen in organization. Through semi-structured interviews with six OD practitioners from three organizations that elicit their experiences of change initiatives, nine enablers were found that span across the three dimensions of content, context and process suggested in Armenakis and Bedeian’s [1] Integrated Theoretical Framework for chan...

Organizational Behavior  Organizational Behavior and Theory  Operations Management 

Doi:10.5176/2010-4804_4.1.348

This study examined non-traditional undergraduate student’s perception of accounting in an introductory accounting course at five campuses of a Christian university in the southeast region of the U. S. The consensuses of the student’s perceptions were positive over the perceptional items measured. However, three of the items FORWARD(I am looking forward this course), DIFFICULT (This course will be difficult), and INSTRUCTOR (The instructor will affect my opinion of the usefulness of this course)...

Public Economics  Social Issues And Public Policy  Risk Management  Socioeconomics  Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility  Business and Economics Education  Organizational Behavior  Accounting  Organizational Behavior and Theory  Operations Management 

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The problems connected with developing an efficient market mechanism, enhancing the competitiveness of manufactured goods and services and the availability of working market institutions are of crucial importance for the countries that have taken the path of economic integration. During the last few years, franchising as a model for development of business activity gets more popular in Bulgaria. This allows Bulgarian companies to be more competitive and to provide services with better quality. T...

Business Finance and Investment  Operations Management 

Doi:10.12709/mest.03.03.02.13